The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of David Auburn's Joe Alsop-play, The Columnist, premiering in New York next week, with John Lithgow in the lead role (one he should be able to easily milk for all it's worth).
Eric Alterman previews the play in this weekend's The New York Times, in A Newsmaker in Every Sense of the Word -- and has the same question I do:
Eric Alterman previews the play in this weekend's The New York Times, in A Newsmaker in Every Sense of the Word -- and has the same question I do:
As fascinating as I have found Alsop, since I wrote a history of political punditry 20 years ago, I nevertheless found it curious that Mr. Auburn -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Proof -- and the Manhattan Theater Club would think the life of this all-but-forgotten figure might generate enough interest to entice a Broadway audience.